Dear MSA Member,

📅We would like to invite you to renew your MSA membership for 2024! The MSA portal is open for business: bit.ly/3Uq7JtX (1/5)👇🧵

🕯️ In Memoriam: Jan Assmann (1939 - 2024)

The field of memory studies mourns the loss of a visionary pioneer. Jan Assmann, whose seminal work reshaped our understanding of cultural memory, passed away on February 19, 2024, at the age of 85.

Full Tribute: shorturl.at/bkTU0

📢Join us for an online discussion around the volume ‘Remembering the Neoliberal Turn’, edited by Veronika Pehe and Joanna Wawrzyniak and published as part of the ENRS and Routledge book series ‘European Remembrance and Solidarity’. 📚

💡 We are excited to announce an extension for submitting your proposal for the #MSA2024 ! The new deadline is January 22, 2024!

🔶 The theme of the 2024 conference will be “Memories in Transit”.

⚡ For more information: bit.ly/4a9AtNj

PhD & early career researchers - apply for our Training School on *slow memory theory*, 27/28 May in Belgrade! Participants will receive full funding & workshop their own work with us! More info & appl form ⬇️ - pls share widely! Memory Studies Association slowmemory.eu/events/earlyca…

Dobrze że wzrośnie budżet na naukę, dobrze że wzrosną wynagrodzenia. Fatalnie że nie ma w projekcie budżetu nawet symbolicznego wzrostu środków dla Narodowe Centrum Nauki. Badania podstawowe wymagają wsparcia! Dariusz Wieczorek Maciej Gdula Andrzej Szeptycki

🗣 Our mentorship program is still open for applications!

🔶There are still 7 days left to apply to the MSA mentorship program. What are you waiting for?

⚡ More info: bit.ly/3QRDSHr

❗ Deadline: 18 December, 2024

#MSA #Mentorship #MemoryStudies

✨We are pleased to share that the Special Issue of Sage Journals Memory Studies “Taking Stock of Memory Studies” is out!

📃Jeffrey Olick, Aline Sierp, and Jenny Wüstenberg , our founding presidents, are the Guest Editors!

📷Interested? Check out: bit.ly/4adgQUt

Reprezentacja Katedra Socjologii Ekonomicznej &Spraw Publicznych w osobach Joanna Wawrzyniak oraz mojej licytowała dziś na XV Aukcji Wigilijnej organizowanej przez RSS Wydział Socjologii UW!!! Uniwersytet Warszawski ta aukcja to skarb! Ponad 20 tys zł na Fundacja SYNAPSIS !!!

All welcome! Registration details here: slowmemory.eu/news/slowmemo-… slowmemo Memory Studies Association Center for Research on Social Memory

Happy this paper is out online! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Wydział Socjologii UW Katedra Socjologii Ekonomicznej &Spraw Publicznych Center for Research on Social Memory

✨We are pleased to report that our first MSA’s Memory Scholars at Risk Fellow, Maryna Rusanova, is working on the research project Antisemitism in Post-Migrant Britain at the Uni of Birmingham.

❗Interested? Check out: bit.ly/3QXvhDe

Photo: University of Birmingham

Join us next Tuesday for a discussion of a great book by Orli Fridman Details and registration link at facebook.com/events/6605703…

📣 It's time for our next discussions within the 'To Understand Memory' series.
The event will take place on 5th December at 6 PM at Dom Spotkań z Historią in Warsaw. 📅
📺There will be also an online transmission!

⬇️ Read more here:
enrs.eu/edition/zrozum…

A great keynote 'Heritage of Hunger in Europe: The Past and Present Politics of Embodying Disaster’ by Marguerite Corporaal at the 13th Genealogies of Memory conf ’Pandemics, famines and industrial disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries’ organized by ENRS . Two more days to go!

Ewelina Szpak from ENRS opens the 13th Genealogies of Memory conference Pandemics, famines and industrial disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries. The opening is followed by Dora Vargha keynote 'Epidemic Times after the End: A History’. Congratulations on the great program!

I'm looking for a new Postdoc to join the INVISIHIST team, details are here. The deadline is 11 December, feel free to share. Postdoc Position The United Nations beyond the West  (0,8FTE) The United Nations beyond the West universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2023…

A great kick off meeting of the Memory Studies Association network of memory studies research centers in Barcelona! Thank you so much to Jenny Wüstenberg for taking the lead on this initiative, to all colleagues for your participation and organizational help, and El Born CCM for hosting us!

Thrilled to conclude the first meeting of memory studies centers organized by the #MSA and Born Center in Barcelona 🌐

🔎Grateful for enriching discussions on training, collaboration, and funding opportunities.

We’re looking forward to the future of memory studies!🤝🏻

Looking forward to seeing this come out after a lot of hard work and great international contributions from all career stages!